The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-05-07
CURRENT TOPICS.

The Tallahassee plum trees are crcaking
with ripening fruit
wHALEBoNE is at higher price in Lon
don than ever before.
A CALL has been made for the reunion Of
the original California 49ers.
ITALY has the largest gun in the world.
1t is forty.six feet long and weighs 118
tons.
As many as hundred quakings OF tho
earth day have been registered in New
Zealand.
DAVID HosrETTRR, Of btters fame, 10
worth $16,OO0OOO twenty-five years ago
he was peddler.
A MITRAILLEusE is being tried in the Aus
trian army which will fire thousand bull
lets in ninety seconds.
A New York man advertises to restore
old paintings. A witty exchange wonders
how many he has stolen.
WEDDING cake was imported from Lon
don for marriage which took place in
New York a few days ago.
THE output Of the locomotive works OF
the country now averages from thirty'six
to forty engines per week.
Mrs. MAcKAY, wife of the Nevada mining
millionaire, will soon leave Paris to make
ncr nome In san Francisco.
A JUBILEE drink" is being advertised
in London. A "jubilee coffin" had pre-
viously made its appearance.
THE Grant monument committee now
think $500, 900 sufficient for the proposed
memorial to the dead chieftain.
IT is estimated that 1000 men on the New
York police force weigh 100000 pounds or
an average Of 200 pounds a man.
Four hundred young men Of Louisville
have formed an organization for business
purposes and to "boom" the city.
THERE are 1920 papers in the United
States and Territories, including Canada,
an increase Of 5S1 during last year.
SIDNEY WooLLETT, the elocutionist, is
said to have memorized more than three
hundred thousand verses Of poetry.
THERE is proposition before the Illinois
Legislature to have the school books
printed by the convicts of the State prison.
AT the mouth Of Cornish mine there is
this advice: "Do not fall down this shaft,
as there are men ut work at the bottom of
it."
DIR. Won KLEIN, a Dayton (O.l linguist,
will undertake the work OF translating the
medical and sanitary features Of the Tai
mud.
THE Queen of Sweden has undergone an
operation at Stockholm for cancer, but the
hopes Of her ultimate recovery are very
doubtful.
LONDON newspapers are making prepa-
rations and employing correspondents in
anticipation OF war on the continent in the
near future.
AT Bergen, Norway, is church con-
structed entirely of papier-mache. 1t is
octagonal in shape and will accommodate
LOCO persons.
AMONG the millionaire girls in Washing
ton society are the Misses Riggs, who sue
ceed, with their brothers, to their fathers
banking business.
JAY GoULD's new private car, now under
construction, will cost $4,000. 1t will be
20 feet long, have five apartments and be
called the Atlanta.
BILLY EMERSON, the minstrel, who writes
his first name with little b, receives $500
n week and travels in private car with
his wife wherever he goes.
MARK TWAIN often astonishes the good
people Of Hartford by laughing outright in
church when the pious pastor says things
the humorist does not believe.
The crater Kilauea Of the volcano Mauna
Loa, is three miles long, two miles wide
and in places 500 feet deep. The boiling
lava can be seen in many places.
THE payroll of the Queen of England's
household shows an official rat-catcher at
Windsor, at a salary Of $50 per annum, and
another for Buckingham Palace at go.
The Jacksonville Southern Leader, pa
per published by colored men, says that
the 10000 colored citizens Of Florida own
property to the value Of about $2,OO0,OOO
THE latest estimates place Belgium at
the head Of the beer drinking countries of
Europe. The consumption per capita is
six-tenths in excess Of that of Germany.
UNCLE BILLY DAVIS, an old negro, living
at Mayfeld, KY, thinks he is q centena-
rian, but this did not prevent him from
marrying girl Of twenty-five the other
day.
JOHN BUNYAN used the slang expression,
''It's cold day for them," in an essay
against the Roman Catholic clergy, which
makes the phrase about two hundred and
twenty years old.
THE express robber has no longer tho
monopoly of crime on the iron highways.
Freight train robbers are coming to the
front, the last discovered crew being on
the Ft. Wayne road.
THE most uncommon names in English
are those which begin with X. There are
none in the New York directory. Phila.
delphia, however, presents the.names of
Xaviers, Xander and Xandry.
A BIRDS nest found on the roof near tho
United States mint in Washington, was
beautifully lined with gold. The parent
bird had carried OF gold dust in it's
feathers and shaken them out in its tiny
home.
MAHLoN SHAABER, Of Reading, Pa,
stands six feet eight inches high. He
has been appointed to the position Of
chief of police. He is a unique character
In that place-the tallest policeman in
America.
Russell Cox, Of Holderness, N. H., who
is ninety years Of age, is suffering from
severe attack Of whooping cough. His
mother, who died recently, had the whoop.
ing cough when she was one hundred and
one years Of age.
The United States soldier, when
equipped with rife and cartridg dge- be II,
three days cooked rations and 100 rounds
of ball cartridges and 'kit" of clothing,
carries weight Of over ffty-fve pounds.
ANTHONY BARRIos, son Of the late Presi.
dent Of Guatemala, is q student Of West
Point, and young Zarala, son of the man
who overthrow and caused the death of
President Barrios, 10 also at West Point,
and 10 his classmate.
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